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What your social media likes say about you

In this short TED video, Jennifer Golbeck explains how homophily and the propagation of information through networks explain how ‘liking’ curly fries on Facebook was found to be one of the strongest predictors of intelligence.

You can see what your own Facebook likes say about you at You Are What You Like, and the original paper Goldberg is talking about is here.